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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [HL]

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Monday, 3 December 2007, in the House of Lords.
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HL). Lords Committee stage first day. Part 2 of 2 records.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

696 c1580-600 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department of Health

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HL). (Explanatory Note HL Bill 6-EN published).
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Patel | 696 c1592 (Link to this contribution) First, Amendment No. 21 refers to resources for embryonic stem cell research and adult stem cell res...
Baroness Deech | 696 c1591-2 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may add an eminently evident and obvious point—that many members of the authority were soc...

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Lord Northbourne | 696 c1591 (Link to this contribution) We are discussing membership of the authority but I have not heard the slightest mention of anyone i...
Lord Patten | 696 c1593 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way yet again; I shall not trouble her furt...
Lord Patten | 696 c1593 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness referred to the fact that applications to the authority are open to lay members. ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 696 c1592-3 (Link to this contribution) The HFEA’s role is to license and monitor all clinics and centres carrying out fertility treatment, ...
Baroness Deech | 696 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Without naming names, I definitely recall that there was at least one Catholic—possibly more—serving...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 696 c1580-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 21: 21: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause— ““Reports to the Secr...
Lord Winston | 696 c1585 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the noble Lord might be kind enough to explain which scientists on the authority at...
Lord Patten | 696 c1584-5 (Link to this contribution) I offer strong support to the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool. I often think that if I offer str...
Baroness Deech | 696 c1586-7 (Link to this contribution) I first declare an interest as a long-serving former chairman of the HFEA. I have every respect for ...
Lord Patten | 696 c1585-6 (Link to this contribution) I am talking not about the past but the future. I am talking about the amendment tabled by the noble...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 696 c1588 (Link to this contribution) Would my noble and right reverend friend therefore want to see excluded from all of the local ethica...
Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 696 c1587-8 (Link to this contribution) I support the wise words of the noble Baroness, Lady Deech. The noble Lords, Lord Alton and Lord Pat...
Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 696 c1588-9 (Link to this contribution) I reiterate what the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, said; namely, that the HFEA makes a point of keepin...
Lord Winston | 696 c1589-90 (Link to this contribution) There is a great deal of technical information in the Bill. We have gone through much of it this aft...
Baroness Barker | 696 c1590-1 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the Committee for my absence earlier this afternoon, which was unavoidable. In the ab...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 696 c1597-8 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the point that the noble Lord, Lord Patten, has just made. People who come to ...
Lord Winston | 696 c1594 (Link to this contribution) As a matter of information, is it not right that members of the HFEA must apply after public adverti...
Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 696 c1596 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that I used the word ““incompatible””; I just said that it would be very difficult.
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 696 c1596 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my noble and right reverend friend for giving that slight nuance to the point. Neve...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 696 c1594-5 (Link to this contribution) Advertisements appear in the national press, people apply and it is up to the Appointments Commissio...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 696 c1595-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her reply, and especially for the fair wind she and the ...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 696 c1597 (Link to this contribution) I will come back to the point that the noble Baroness just made, but let me first deal with the inte...
Lord Patten | 696 c1597 (Link to this contribution) This point about passion is important, but would the noble Lord not agree that on this authority or ...
Lord Winston | 696 c1596 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord mentions that no rabbi who is opposed to human embryo research has been appointed to ...
Lord Elton | 696 c1598 (Link to this contribution) I think that I heard the word ““finally”” and I want to get in a question before the noble Lord with...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 696 c1598 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will want to return to that intervention by the noble Lord, Lord Elton. People from a c...
Baroness Deech | 696 c1598 (Link to this contribution) Before my noble friend reaches a conclusion, I shall add, on the welfare of the child, that at the m...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 696 c1599-600 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. The Committee will be relieved to know that it brings me to end...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 696 c1600 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.
Lord Elton | 696 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the noble Baroness, Lady Barker, on the normality of a regulator being funded ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 696 c1593 (Link to this contribution) I have no hesitation in saying that it would be possible for a Roman Catholic to be appointed to the...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 696 c1596-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to intervene, but I have a real problem here about the issue of good faith and bad faith....
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 696 c1600 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may briefly convey a message to the Committee from the noble Lord, Lord Brennan. He wishes...

Subjects

Fertility
Human embryo experiments
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
IVF
Parents
Medicine
Research
Stem cells

Legislation

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (HL) 2007-08

Link

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